Japan's SoftBank to sound out Apollo, Brookfield on Stargate funding

Tech group will invest $19bn of its own money in AI project company

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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son speaks about the Stargate project at the White House alongside President Donald Trump, Oracle's Larry Ellison and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Jan. 21. © Reuters

MASAYUKI SHIKATA

TOKYO -- Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group plans to contact big investment firms including Apollo Global Management about fundraising for a U.S. artificial intelligence project proposed by President Donald Trump, Nikkei has learned.

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